Senior Project Manager - Software & IT Services

About the role

InnovationTeam is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of strategic software and IT services engagements for key customers in Saudi Arabia. The role combines delivery leadership, customer relationship management, commercial discipline and governance, and sits in Riyadh.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex software development, systems integration, digital transformation and IT services projects.
• Set up and maintain the project governance framework, including stage gates, quality controls and change management.
• Develop integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, quality and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain RAID and decision logs and lead project-level financial and commercial management, including budget tracking, resource utilization and contractual exposure.
• Enforce formal change control and manage cross-functional teams including software engineering, QA, DevOps, architecture, business analysis, UX/UI, infrastructure, security and third-party vendors.
• Provide leadership to Project Managers, workstream leads and technical leads, and apply Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and hybrid approaches.
• Lead customer governance meetings, executive reviews, SteerCo presentations and status reporting, and support pre-sales and commercial teams.
• Manage customer expectations, coordinate resource planning with the PMO and Operations, and drive project recovery plans and closure.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline; a master's degree is an advantage.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience and 6 years of direct project management experience.
• Proven track record managing complex software or systems integration projects and large enterprise or government accounts in Saudi Arabia.
• PMP certification is required; PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, CSM, PSM or ITIL is an advantage.
• Professional fluency in English; Arabic is strongly preferred.
• Maximum one-month notice period; on-site customer engagement and travel within Saudi Arabia may be required.

Required skills

• Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methods.
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, release management, configuration management and testing.
• Project planning, effort estimation, resource forecasting, RAID management and change control.
• Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project and Microsoft 365.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, executive communication and commercial awareness.